Upcoming Book by Christoph Jahn

The Complete Guide to AI-Driven webMethods Integration

A holistic, battle-tested guide to building, operating, and evolving mission-critical integration platforms — with AI woven into every chapter.

20+
Years with webMethods
Enterprise
Scale & Complexity
Software AG
Sales Platform Architect

Not another tutorial.
A complete platform guide.

This book covers the full lifecycle of a webMethods integration platform — tailored to your organization's real needs. Architecture, deployment, operations, and evolution.

DDD & Hexagonal Architecture

Domain-Driven Design and hexagonal architecture applied to integration. Build platforms that evolve with your business instead of becoming the bottleneck.

Flexible Deployment

VM-based, container-based, and cloud-native — all covered. Gradually transition between models while maintaining a single code base throughout.

CI/CD & TDD

Full coverage of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and test-driven development for integration. Because "it works on my machine" isn't a deployment strategy.

Operations & Observability

In-depth coverage of monitoring, alerting, and operational practices. A platform you can't observe and operate confidently isn't production-ready.

Business Adaptability

The core theme: how to build an integration platform that can quickly and cleanly adapt to changing business requirements without accruing technical debt.

Mix & Match

Gradually move from VMs to containers at your own pace. Mix and match deployment models across your landscape — always from a single code base.

AI woven in, not bolted on.

Every chapter includes a dedicated focus on how AI can accelerate your work — while keeping quality high and technical debt low.

⚡ AI-Enhanced

Speed without sacrificing discipline

For each area — architecture, development, testing, deployment, operations — the book explores how AI can genuinely speed things up. But careless AI adoption creates technical debt fast. This book shows you how to leverage AI responsibly, maintaining the quality standards your platform demands.

For organizations in regulated industries or scenarios where data privacy and security are non-negotiable, the book also covers how to run AI in purely local and air-gapped environments. You shouldn't have to choose between AI-assisted productivity and your compliance requirements.

Business Agility

Respond to changing requirements quickly and confidently. Your platform should enable speed, not constrain it.

Operational Stability

Move fast without breaking things. Robust operations, comprehensive observability, and battle-tested practices.

Built on two decades in the trenches.

I've been working with webMethods Integration Server since 2002 and have been involved with some of the most demanding Integration Server projects world-wide — including architecting and operating the integration platform for Software AG's own sales organization.

This isn't a theoretical guide. It's distilled from real projects with real complexity, real stakes, and real lessons learned. The patterns and practices in this book have been validated in production at enterprise scale.

Performance & High-Availability Recognized expert for Integration Server performance tuning and high-availability architectures
Operations & Infrastructure Strong background in production operations, infrastructure design, and platform reliability
Global Project Experience Involved with some of the most complex and demanding Integration Server deployments world-wide since 2002
Author of WxConfig Creator of WxConfig NG and its predecessor WxConfig classic — widely used tools in the webMethods community

Interested? Help make it happen.

A book of this scope is a significant commitment. I'll move forward if there's genuine demand. Pre-order to signal your interest.

Organizations can bulk-order for teams (minimum 10 copies) with volume discounts available. Contact sales@ai-driven-integration.com for details.

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